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| 释义 | society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > other types of engine > [noun] > other specific engines (16) ballast engine?1748 reciprocator1769 Mechanics. A reciprocating engine forming part of a composite power plant. In later use also more widely: any machine with a reciprocating part or… bellows-engine1834 an engine that works bellows. jack engine1847 †(a) (perhaps) a jack-frame (jack-frame, n. 2) (obsolete); (b) Mining a small steam engine used for tasks auxiliary to those performed by a larger… power producer1859 trunk-engine1864 an engine having a tubular piston-rod; see sense 10d. naphtha engine1876 an internal combustion engine that uses naphtha as fuel. jinny1877 Mining. A stationary engine used to let down or draw up trucks on an inclined plane; also = jinny-road n. a self-acting inclined plane; = jig, n.1 6d. barring engine1885 The action of bar, v.. attributive, as in barring engine: small auxiliary engine for starting large mill engines; so called from the employment of a… shifter1904 Mechanics. A small engine employed in making up a railway train. yarder1911 A kind of donkey-engine used in logging. mill1918 Mechanical applications. slang. The engine of an aircraft or motor vehicle. rocket1919 An engine operating on the same principle as the pyrotechnic rocket, generating thrust by the expulsion of hot gases like a jet engine but without… booster1944 Aeronautics. An auxiliary engine or rocket, esp. one used to give initial speed to a rocket or missile which is afterwards left to continue under its… monobloc1944 An engine or other object manufactured from a single casting. Subcategories:— parts of (1) |
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